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Cafe Review - The Museum Cafe

Posted 4:05am Monday 21st March 2011 by Pippa Schaffler

Ground floor of Otago Museum (across road from Central Library) 419 Great King Street. (4/5) Prices: Flat White: $3.60 (or $4.10 for large), Long Black: $3.10, Mocha: $4.10   Atmosphere: Busy and family orientated. There were lots of children running around us screaming and it was a Read more...

Rango

Posted 4:01am Monday 21st March 2011 by Nicole Muriel

Directed by Gore Verbinski. (4/5). Don’t be fooled by the trailer which, emblazoned with star Johnny Depp’s name, sells Rango as a kid’s film with a smart-mouthed hero and lots of laughs.   From the opening scenes, it’s obvious this isn’t as light as Read more...

Hall Pass

Posted 3:59am Monday 21st March 2011 by Hamish Gavin

Directed by Bobby and Peter Farrelly. (3.5/5). Every male in a relationship, everywhere, thinks exactly like the characters of this new movie from the Farrelly Brothers. If given the same chance as the guys in Hall Pass, most men would probably end up doing exactly the same thing. The basic Read more...

Fair Game

Posted 3:58am Monday 21st March 2011 by Alec Dawson

Directed by Doug Liman. (3/5). Living as we do now in the Obama era, with the Iraq war drawing to a close, a film about the lies told in the lead-up to the 2003 invasion feels strangely dated at times. This is especially so outside of America, where most people knew the war was totally unjustified Read more...

Conviction

Posted 3:56am Monday 21st March 2011 by Theo Kay

Directed by Tony Goldwyn. (2.5/5). Conviction tells the true story of one woman’s fight for the release of her brother who has been sentenced to life for a murder he did not commit. The film's clunky conventional storyline steps back and forth in time to build up an account of how Read more...

Killer Condom (Kondom des Grauens) – 1997

Posted 3:53am Monday 21st March 2011 by Ben Blakely

Directed by Martin Walz. Starring: Udo Samel, Marc Richter, Leonard Lansink, Peter Lohmeyer. Something strange is afoot at Hotel Quickie. A professor takes his student to the hotel and blackmails her into sleeping with him; he leaves without his penis. It appears that it has been bitten off by Read more...

A fabulous free journal to lust after

Posted 3:22am Monday 21st March 2011 by Mahoney Turnbull

Emily Miller-Sharma and photographer Guy Coombes worked with Chelsea Metcalf and Chelsie Preston-Crayford to document the interaction between their two personalities. Henrietta Harris submitted illustrations to a verbal brief of “Just paint some beautiful pictures like you do. Some Read more...

Bloodlines

Posted 3:01am Monday 21st March 2011 by Pippa Schäffler

Author: T.K. Roxborogh. Publisher: Penguin Books (3.5/5) “Do not feel guilty that you do not love me like her. Our union will be another story, Fleance. I will be a good wife and an excellent queen”.     With this, the reader of Bloodlines is immediately propelled Read more...

The Bed of Procrustes

Posted 2:59am Monday 21st March 2011 by Kari Schmidt

Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Publisher: Penguin Books (NZ) (3/5) The outer aesthetic appeal of The Bed of Procrustes is equal to that of its content. A short book, charmingly presented (with a classical sculpture adorning its cover), it consists of chapters on various aspects of living Read more...

Fringe Festival

Posted 2:49am Monday 21st March 2011 by Hana Aoake

The eleventh annual Dunedin Fringe festival is on this week and I encourage you to go along and see some of the great locally produced events. Pattern and paradox by Dunedin artist Jenny Longstaff is on at the Blueskin gallery in Waitati. If you have a car or want to jump on a bus (don’t Read more...